Connecticut teen charged with school threat

Bridgeport police have charged a city teenager with threatening to go on a shooting spree at Central High School.

Bridgeport police have charged a city teenager with threatening to go on a shooting spree at Central High School.

Police say the 16-year-old student posted the threat on Facebook, saying that he was going to kill fellow students and that he was serious. A police SWAT team raided the teen's home Wednesday night and arrested him, a few hours after authorities say they learned about the threat from school officials.

Officers say they didn't find any weapons in the boy's home.

Parents of students at the school said they were surprised and shocked by news of the threat, especially after last month's school massacre in Newtown where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed.

Police didn't release the teen's name because of juvenile offender laws. He's charged with first-degree threatening.